Ellen Heck

Ellen Heck is a printmaker. For seven wonderful years, she made prints at Kala Art Institute in Berkeley, across the bay from the Golden Gate Bridge. Orange was not one of her favorite colors as a child. Now it is, and she spends many hours making prints on a very orange etching press in very green North Carolina, where she lives with her family, all of whom kindly modeled for these illustrations. 

From the dust jacket of Golden Gate: Building the Mighty Bridge